Behinds Quotes - Page 40

• Boys are two years behind girls in maturity level.

  Jennifer Echols

  Girl, Maturity, Boys

  Jennifer Echols (2012). “Going Too Far”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations of mind is an equally nervous preoccupation with the self as machine.

  Sherry Turkle

  Self, Mind, Fascination

  Sherry Turkle (2005). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, p.29, MIT Press

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• Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each other's backs. It's seriously twisted.

  Melody Carlson

  Girl, Jealous, Guy

  Melody Carlson (2012). “The Jerk Magnet”, p.134, Revell

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• It was my mother who taught me the one worthwhile thing: when they ask if you like what you see in the mirror, pretend that what they mean is what's behind you--the shower curtain, the tile, the wallpaper, whatever's there.

  Gary Lutz

  Mother, Mean, Mirrors

  Gary Lutz (2002). “Stories in the Worst Way”, 3rd Bed Books

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• All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back and forth behind our days, but those tales grow too and shake us just as fierce.

  Mark Lawrence

  Fierce, Tales, Back And Forth

  Mark Lawrence (2014). “Prince of Fools”, p.197, Penguin

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• Besides, whoever keeps the future in front of him and the past at his back is doing something else that's hard to imagine. For the image implies that events somehow already exist in the future, reach the present at a determined moment, and finally come to rest in the past. But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute. Therefore such a person has his face toward the void, whereas it is the past behind him that is visible, stored in the memory.

  Harry Mulisch

  Memories, Past, Might

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• Condelleza Rice and Colin Powell are both dangerous people. What they did in Haiti [2004 U.S.-backed coup that ousted democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide] is a good measure of it. They destroyed a democracy. They squelched loans that had been approved by the Inter-American Development Bank. They did everything behind the scenes, including arming the thugs that came to overrun the country. They're frauds.

  Randall Robinson

  Country, Thug, People

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• You gotta keep things moving. If leaving behind the past means you can have a better future, then, sure, why not?

  Lisa Mangum

  Moving, Mean, Past

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• The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

  Warren Buffett

  Figures, Obligation, Left

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• Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual

  Gordon Allport

  Lying, Personality, Doe

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• When you walk through that door of opportunity you don't slam it shut behind you.

  Michelle Obama

  Opportunity, Doors, Behind You

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• When a man leaves home, he leaves behind some scrap of his heart. . . . It's the same with a place a man is going to. Only then he sends a scrap of his heart ahead.

  Frederick Buechner

  Home, Heart, Men

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “The Eyes of the Heart: A Memoir of the Lost and Found”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.

  Lane Evans

  Cutting, Issues, Names

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• I don't think losing 3 million jobs, having deficits as far as the eye can go, having 2 million people lose their health insurance, turning your back on kids in schools and not funding No Child Left Behind represents a vision.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, Children, School

  "Bush Lays Out Campaign Agenda". www.foxnews.com. February 24, 2004.

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• Only an open mind still has room for new knowledge. What is outgrown and used up must be discarded to make room for what is yet to be learned. And much of the best thinking is done alone-in deserts, on beaches, in bed, behind closed doors. It is why we say we need to get away-to escape from clutter and busyness-to hear ourselves think.

  Robert Fulghum

  Beach, Learning, Thinking

  Robert Fulghum (1997). “Words I Wish I Wrote: A Collection of Writing that Inspired My Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• It's not what you have at the end of life, it's what you leave behind that matters.

  Stedman Graham

  Matter, End Of Life, Ends

  Stedman Graham (2002). “Build Your Own Life Brand!: A Powerful Strategy to Maximize Your Potential and Enhance Your Value for Ultimate Achievement”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing ever happens by chance; everything is pushed from behind.

  Emily Murphy

  Chance, Happens

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• Integrity is what you do behind closed doors or when you think nobody is watching. Integrity is the true essence of who you are, your beliefs and your values. Reputation is the public perception of who you are. It is how others view your integrity or strong moral principles.

  Erik Qualman

  Strong, Integrity, Thinking

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• Vengeance is a strange human motivation --- it can drive a man to do things which he neither would nor could achieve without it ... and because of that it lies behind some of the greatest sagas of human literature!

  H. Beam Piper

  Motivation, Lying, Men

  H. Beam Piper (2011). “Space Viking”, p.4, The Floating Press

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• It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

  John Phillips

  Hard Work, Generations, Ancestry

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• I think I got left behind somewhere, because, you know, I'm still a romantic

  Grace Coddington

  Thinking, Left Behind, Stills

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• It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.

  Alfred Jodl

  Character, Army, Should Have

  "The Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson, p. 347 (August 10, 1938), 1997.

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• You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct.

  Betty Wright

  Tired, Thinking, People

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• Behind the debris of these self-styled, sullen supermen and imperial diplomatists, there stands the gigantic figure of one person, because of whom, by whom, in whom, and through whom alone mankind might still have hope. The person of Jesus Christ.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Jesus, Self, Might

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• I almost flunked first grade and also the second, third, forth, and fifth; but my younger brother was in the grade behind me and he was a brain and nobody wanted to have me be in the same grade as him, so they kept passing me. I never learned how to spell, graduated from eighth grade counting on my fingers to do simple addition, and in general was not a resounding academic success.

  Robert Munsch

  Brother, Simple, Brain

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